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Join us at Baltic Circle for an evening of two new performative works by artists Flis Holland<\/strong> and Joy Mariama Smith<\/strong> that stretch the limits of communication, access, and perception. Together, the performances invite questions of connection, collectivity, and liberation \u2013 whether through an interstellar signal or the refusal of dominant sensory hierarchies. The commissions are produced as part of the Everyday Priorities \u2013 Art, Technology and Accommodations<\/em><\/a>\u00a0project.<\/p>\n

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Flis Holland: Unansible<\/em><\/h2>\n

The Ansible network1 offers instantaneous interstellar communication. No delays. No static. Seamless exchanges, said to dissolve the distances between us and foster understanding. Yet the signal, for all its perfection, feels alien. In this small group audio performance, we will push the Ansible beyond its intended limits in an attempt to undo the network\u2019s polished fluency. Alt texts for astronomical images from the James Webb Space Telescope are seeds for a dialogue that slows, thickens, and splinters, opening up space for more voices.
\n*Ansible (derived from \u2018answerable\u2019) coined by Ursula K. Le Guin<\/strong>, a concept developed in The Dispossessed: an ambiguous utopia<\/em>, 1974.
\nCredits for all the alt texts used in the work: Alt text by STScI Space Telescope Science Institute, adapted.<\/p>\n

Visit Flis Holland’s website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Joy Mariama Smith: Untitled [Scents Sense]<\/em><\/h2>\n

Joy Mariama Smith\u2019s Untitled [Scents Sense] is a performative intervention that uses access intimacy and seemingly supportive technologies to consider the implications of Anosmia (aka \u2018smell blindness\u2019) in relation to colonial histories, diasporic identities, and the hierarchy of the senses.
\nIn this intervention, assistive technologies, in conjunction with audio and video, accompany selected smells. Together, they invite the viewer to consider borders, boundaries, access, power, policing, stigmatisation, as well as collectivity, liberation, intimacy, care, migration, and resistance through the lens of the olfactory.<\/p>\n

Visit Joy Mariama Smith’s website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the artists<\/h2>\n

Flis Holland<\/h3>\n

Flis Holland (UK\/FI) tracks the collisions of neurodivergent, trans and celestial bodies. Using video, apps, and audio tours they try to resist visual capture and categorisation, to loosen the link between seeing a body and knowing it.
\nHolland\u2019s solo show \u201cOff-Colour\u201d was at Helsinki Art Museum in 2023. Recent group shows incl. Oulun Taidemuseo, Pori Biennial, Pitted Dates and Bemis Center, plus screenings at Rakkautta & Anarkiaa, Uppsala, Kasseler Dokfest and BAFICI. In 2025 they are supported by a grant from Taiteen edist\u00e4miskeskus. Flis Holland\u2019s performance is in collaboration with composer Juulia Haverinen<\/strong> (FI).<\/p>\n

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Juuli Haverinen<\/h3>\n

Juuli Haverinen is a Helsinki-based composer, musician and sound artist. She explores the intersections of voice, identity and technology through music, installations and performance.<\/p>\n

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Joy Mariama Smith<\/h3>\n

A native Philadelphian currently based in Amsterdam, NL, Joy Mariama Smith\u2019s work primarily addresses the conundrum of projected identities in various contexts. A sub-theme, or ongoing question in their work is: What is the interplay between the body and it\u2019s physical environment?
\nRooted in socially engaged art practice, they are a performance \/ installation \/ movement artist, activist, facilitator, curator, researcher, dramaturg and architectural designer. They have a strong improvisational practice spanning over 20 years. When they choose to teach, they actively try to uphold inclusive spaces.<\/p>\n

\"Everyday<\/p>\n

Everyday Priorities 26.11. at 18:00<\/h3>\n

Wednesday, 26.11. 18:00
\nBuy tickets<\/a> (Price: 17 \/ 27 \u20ac)
\nBaltic Circle. Kanneltalo, Klaneettitie 5, 00420 Helsinki. Kanneltalo is accessible for people using mobility aids. Read more about the accessibility of the venue<\/a>.
\nDuration: 60\u201390 min
\nLanguages: Unansible: English. Untitled [Scents Sense]: Multilingual.
\nPlease note: Flis Holland\u2019s piece is an audio performance. Joy Mariama Smith\u2019s piece contains strong smells. Kanneltalo is accessible for people using mobility aids. Read more about the accessibility of the venue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Commissions are produced within Everyday Priorities \u2013 Art, Technology and Accommodations<\/em>, a project by M-Cult (Helsinki) and Metro54 (Amsterdam) in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. The performances at Baltic Circle are the result of a partnership between M-Cult and Baltic Circle.<\/p>\n

Baltic Circle<\/a> is an international festival for contemporary theatre and performance organised annually in November in Helsinki. The 22nd edition \u00a0takes place 21.11\u2013 6.12.2025.<\/p>\n

Everyday Priorities \u2014 Art, Technology and Accommodations<\/em><\/a> is a series of gatherings and new artistic commissions that explore, experiment with, and put into action alternative ways of commissioning, producing, and presenting artistic work, media art as well as dialogic and performative practices. As a collective (un)learning process, the project enhances the critical and speculative use of new technologies, different forms of hospitality, and access toolkits.<\/p>\n

Supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland and the Mondriaan Fonds, Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Cover image: Left: John C. Brandt<\/strong>, JOCR Modern Observational Techniques for Comets conference proceedings 1981. Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons \/ Right: Joy Mariama Smith, \u201cDoing Nothing\u201d, 2020 Photo: Maarten Nauw<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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